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THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>GENESIS</span>
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CHAPTER 49
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Jacob blesses his sons and their seed—Reuben, Simeon, and Levi are chastened—Judah shall bear rule until Shiloh (Christ) comes—Joseph is a fruitful bough by a well—His branches (the Nephites and the Lamanites) to run over the wall—The Shepherd and Stone of Israel (Christ) shall bless Joseph temporally and spiritually—Jacob chooses to be buried with his fathers in Canaan—He yields up the ghost and is gathered to his people.
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And</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 4: 12; Alma 8: 22; Alma 45: 15.">Jacob</a> called unto his <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Patriarchs.">sons</a>, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you <i>that</i> which shall befall you in the <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/49/1c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Last Days.">last</a> days.
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Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Family, Patriarchal.">father</a>.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 29: 32; Deut. 33: 6; 1 Chr. 5: 1; 2 Ne. 1: 29 (28-29); D&C 68: 17; Abr. 1: 3.">Reuben</a>, thou <i>art</i> my firstborn, my might, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 21: 17.">beginning</a> of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:
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Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/4a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Sexual Immorality.">bed</a>; then <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/4b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Sensuality.">defiledst</a> thou <i>it:</i> he went up to my couch.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 29: 33 (33-34); Gen. 34: 25 (25-31); D&C 128: 24.">Simeon</a> and <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 33: 8 (8-11); D&C 13: 1.">Levi</a> <i>are</i> brethren; instruments of <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/49/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Cruelty.">cruelty</a> <i>are</i> <i>in</i> their habitations.
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O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eph. 5: 11; Alma 5: 57.">united</a>: for in their <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Retribution.">anger</a> they <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/49/6c" mark="c" type="A" title="Gen. 34: 26 (25-31).">slew</a> a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/7a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Curse.">Cursed</a> <i>be</i> their <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/7b" mark="b" type="C" title="Gen. 34: 7; TG Anger.">anger</a>, for <i>it</i> <i>was</i> fierce; and their wrath, for it was <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/49/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Cruelty.">cruel</a>: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/8a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Judah, People of.">Judah</a>, thou <i>art</i> <i>he</i> whom thy brethren shall <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 29: 35.">praise</a>: thy hand <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> in the <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/49/8c" mark="c" type="A" title="2 Sam. 22: 41.">neck</a> of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/49/8d" mark="d" type="A" title="Gen. 27: 29; 1 Ne. 7: 20; 1 Ne. 21: 23.">bow</a> down before thee.
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Judah <i>is</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 33: 22; Rev. 5: 5.">lion</a>’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 24: 9; 3 Ne. 20: 16 (15-16); Morm. 5: 24.">lion</a>, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?
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The sceptre shall not depart from <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/10a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Judah, People of.">Judah</a>, nor a <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ps. 60: 7; D&C 38: 22; D&C 45: 59.">lawgiver</a> from between his feet, until <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/49/10c" mark="c" type="O" title="The Heb. word shiloh may be a short form of asher-lo, which can be rendered ‘whose right it is.’; JST Gen. 50: 24 (Appendix); Ezek. 21: 27; TG Jesus Christ, Messiah; TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about.">Shiloh</a> come; and unto him <i>shall</i> the <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/49/10d" mark="d" type="C" title="2 Ne. 10: 7 (7-8); 2 Ne. 25: 17 (15-18); TG Israel, Mission of.">gathering</a> of the people <i>be.</i>
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Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="John 15: 1 (1-6); 1 Ne. 15: 15.">vine</a>; he <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="D&C 133: 35.">washed</a> his garments in wine, and his clothes in the <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/49/11c" mark="c" type="A" title="Isa. 63: 2; D&C 76: 107; D&C 133: 48 (46-50).">blood</a> of grapes:
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His eyes <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 30: 20; Deut. 33: 18 (18-19); Josh. 19: 10 (10-16).">Zebulun</a> shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> for an haven of ships; and his border <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> unto Zidon.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/14a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 30: 18; Deut. 33: 18 (18-19).">Issachar</a> <i>is</i> a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
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And he saw that rest <i>was</i> good, and the land that <i>it</i> <i>was</i> pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/16a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 33: 22.">Dan</a> shall <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 30: 6.">judge</a> his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
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Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
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I have <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/18a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 25: 5; 1 Ne. 21: 23; 2 Ne. 6: 13; D&C 98: 2; D&C 133: 45.">waited</a> for thy salvation, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 33: 20 (20-21); 1 Chr. 5: 26 (18, 26).">Gad</a>, a <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/19b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 30: 11.">troop</a> shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
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&#182; Out of <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/20a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 30: 13; Deut. 33: 24 (24-25).">Asher</a> his bread <i>shall</i> <i>be</i> fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 30: 8; Deut. 33: 23.">Naphtali</a> <i>is</i> a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 3: 4 (2-5).">Joseph</a> <i>is</i> a fruitful <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/22b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Vineyard of the Lord.">bough</a>, <i>even</i> a fruitful bough by a well; <i>whose</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/49/22c" mark="c" type="C" title="1 Ne. 15: 12 (12, 16); 1 Ne. 19: 24; 2 Ne. 3: 5 (4-5); Jacob 2: 25; Alma 26: 36; TG Book of Mormon.">branches</a> <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/49/22d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">run</a> over the wall:
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The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot <i>at</i> <i>him,</i> and hated him:
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But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty <i>God</i> of Jacob; (from <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/24a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE It is from the lineage of Jacob that the Messiah comes.">thence</a> <i>is</i> the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/24b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Good Shepherd; TG Shepherds.">shepherd</a>, the <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/49/24c" mark="c" type="C" title="D&C 50: 44; TG Jesus Christ, Prophecies about; TG Rock.">stone</a> of Israel:)
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<i>Even</i> by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/25a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Power of.">Almighty</a>, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/25b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Birth Control.">womb</a>:
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The <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/26a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 48: 9; Abr. 2: 9.">blessings</a> of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/26b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Lands of Inheritance.">utmost</a> bound of the everlasting <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/49/26c" mark="c" type="A" title="Deut. 33: 15; 2 Ne. 12: 2 (2-3); D&C 49: 25; D&C 109: 61; D&C 133: 31 (26-34).">hills</a>: they shall be on the head of <sup>d</sup><a href="gen/49/26d" mark="d" type="B" title="TG Israel, Joseph, People of.">Joseph</a>, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
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&#182; <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 42: 4; Gen. 44: 29; Deut. 33: 12; Josh. 18: 11 (11-28).">Benjamin</a> shall ravin <i>as</i> a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
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&#182; All these <i>are</i> the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/28a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Twelve Tribes of.">twelve</a> tribes of Israel: and this <i>is</i> <i>it</i> that their father spake unto them, and <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/28b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 33: 1 (1-25).">blessed</a> them; every one according to his <sup>c</sup><a href="gen/49/28c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Blessings of.">blessing</a> he blessed them.
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And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 5: 24.">people</a>: <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/29b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 47: 29; Gen. 50: 13.">bury</a> me with my fathers in the cave that <i>is</i> in the field of Ephron the Hittite,
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In the cave that <i>is</i> in the field of <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 23: 9 (9, 19); Gen. 25: 9.">Machpelah</a>, which <i>is</i> before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/30b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 23: 16 (16-17).">Ephron</a> the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.
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There they <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Gen. 25: 10.">buried</a> Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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The purchase of the field and of the cave that <i>is</i> therein <i>was</i> from the children of Heth.
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And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the <sup>a</sup><a href="gen/49/33a" mark="a" type="C" title="Jacob 7: 20 (20-21); Hel. 14: 21; TG Spirits, Disembodied.">ghost</a>, and was <sup>b</sup><a href="gen/49/33b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Family, Eternal.">gathered</a> unto his people.
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